The mission of the nonprofit Thinking Foundation is to support high quality academic and applied “action” research on cognitive and critical thinking skills development at the pre-school, K-12 and college levels.  Initial grant awards will emphasize qualitative and quantitative research on Thinking Maps^® as a foundational language for thinking, learning, teaching, and leading across educational organizations.

Thinking Foundation will offer small ($2,500) to medium size grants ($10,000) to individual teachers, administrators, and independent researchers as well as schools, school systems and organizations based on a criteria for advancing research for the purpose of significantly improving learning, teaching, leadership and assessment practices in schools.  The central focus of the foundation will be on supporting research that is investigating and facilitating change in those public schools with the greatest academic need.  The secondary focus is on facilitating research that looks at the interdependency and interplay of culture, language, and cognition through the use of Thinking Maps^®. 

Thinking Maps, Inc.

www.thinkingmaps.com

Thinking Maps, Inc. is an educational consulting and publishing company specializing in providing professional staff development for K-12 schools across the country.  Our main focus is the implementation, on a school-wide and district-wide basis, of Thinking Maps^®, a common visual language for learning within and across disciplines.